DTPA-Enhanced MRI ⇑ Laura Fernandez-De-Manuel A,B, , Gert Wollny A,B, Jan Kybic C, Daniel Jimenez-Carretero A,B, Jose M
Medical Image Analysis 18 (2014) 22–35 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Medical Image Analysis journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/media Organ-focused mutual information for nonrigid multimodal registration of liver CT and Gd–EOB–DTPA-enhanced MRI ⇑ Laura Fernandez-de-Manuel a,b, , Gert Wollny a,b, Jan Kybic c, Daniel Jimenez-Carretero a,b, Jose M. Tellado d, ⇑ Enrique Ramon e, Manuel Desco f,g, Andres Santos a,b, Javier Pascau f,g, Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo a,b, a Biomedical Image Technologies Lab., DIE, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain b Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red: Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Spain c Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic d Seccion Hepatobiliopancreatica, Servicio de Cirugía General I, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain e Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain f Departamento de Bioingeniería e Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain g Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain article info abstract Article history: Accurate detection of liver lesions is of great importance in hepatic surgery planning. Recent studies have Received 18 October 2012 shown that the detection rate of liver lesions is significantly higher in gadoxetic acid-enhanced magnetic Received in revised form 7 August 2013 resonance imaging (Gd–EOB–DTPA-enhanced MRI) than in contrast-enhanced portal-phase computed Accepted 5 September 2013 tomography (CT); however, the latter remains essential because of its high specificity, good performance Available online 13 September 2013 in estimating liver volumes and better vessel visibility.
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